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Skyler Chan launched GRU last year. Courtesy GRU Space Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making...
Turtle Island. Tanveer Badal As I stood on the dock in Nadi, staring at the tiny hopper plane that I was about to board, I couldn’t help but wonder...
These very different art ecosystems serve very different audiences. Courtesy ZONAMACO This year, there’s no shortage of warm-weather art world...
Carl Gambino and Sarah Ivory at home, where collecting is inseparable from daily life. Painting by Sholto Blissett | Photo: Gloria Kilbourne The...
Gracious Hospitality founder Simon Kim reflects on leadership, longevity and the evolution of modern hospitality. Gary He This Q&A is part of...
Finding the right Valentine’s Day present can pose a challenge for even the most accomplished of gift-givers. You don't want to veer into cheesy...
"It’s about the pleasure of living with art—wanting the work around you, every day, as part of your life," Gambino told Observer.
Under the dim lights of a chic Lower East Side venue, art world luminaries gathered to celebrate Observer's Art Power Index—and each other. From...
She described long-standing issues—from understaffing to opaque decision-making—that gradually pushed them toward unionization.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The happy family, called Young couple contemplating a sleeping child, or The return home, or The reconciliation. Oil on...
A rendering of the New Museum’s expansion. Courtesy of the New Museum We expected it to open last fall. Then came months of silence. Now, at last,...
January is a month of fresh starts and new beginnings, so what better way to kick off 2026 than with a few can’t-miss restaurant openings? As Los...
Las Vegas is in the middle of an over-the-top dining makeover, and the biggest players here aren’t content with just playing their greatest hits....
Glen Taylor attends a Minnesota Timberwolves game on March 31, 2024. Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Glen Taylor, the founder of printing...
There is broad consensus across the art world that since the early 2000s, there has been a global proliferation of biennials—the so-called...
Shirley Yang Crutchfield, Queens Triumvirate, 2025. 24K gold leaf, 22K moon gold, 12K white gold and oil on wood, 24 x 26 in. Courtesy of the...
A post by Elon Musk on the X app, showing an A.I. prompt-created Grok image depicting Musk wearing a bikini. Leon Neal/Getty Images Grok, the A.I....
In a sobering annual message, Bill Gates warns that global aid cuts and unchecked A.I. could derail progress. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los...
Nathan Cornwell. Rebecca Dickson Tourists don’t often venture to Chiswick, a west London neighborhood with a charming communal feel, because it...
Fran Horowitz, a former executive at Express Inc. and Ann Taylor Loft, joined Abercrombie & Fitch in 2014. Patrick MacLeod/WWD/Penske Media via...
If you haven't started the search for a Valentine's Day gift just yet, it's time to get on that—ASAP. February 14 is just around the corner, and...
As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward...
As longevity shifts to A.I. and predictive health, male-biased data risks repeating old inequities at scale. Unsplash Longevity has become one of...
George Longfish, I Will Never Be the Same When I Leave My Father’s Lodge, 1978-82. Courtesy The Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti...
Este Arte’s deliberately small scale has helped position the fair as an early bellwether for Latin America’s contemporary art market. Courtesy Este...
Type One Energy plans to build a fusion power plan on the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run coal-fired power plant in Oak Ridge,...
Amanda Seyfried. WireImage You might still be easing into 2026, but awards season is already out in full force. In a twist from the usual schedule,...
Transitions (2012) by Joan Semmel at the Jewish Museum in New York. Photo: Fred Voon for Observer In 1973, when no gallery in New York would show...
Christie’s will offer hundreds of incredible objects from The Jim Irsay Collection in a series of sales in March 2026. Max Touhey |...
From hybrid work to A.I.-generated messaging, narrative is now how leaders create coherence and credibility. Unsplash In an era where algorithms...
Exit Wound portrays the carnage left by a gunshot as landscape, with the flesh splintering and twining into horizon lines. Photographed by Kyle...
From Airbnb and Booking.com to Amazon and Google, leading companies show how disciplined experimentation turns uncertainty into advantage. Unsplash...